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POSITION TITLE: (Sr.) Accountant - Customer Development Team- West

REPORT TO : CDT Assistant Finance Manager

DEPARTMENT: Finance
LOCATION: Chengdu

PURPOSE STATEMENT:

Assist to manager building strategy to drive consumer value, category profits, company revenue and shared goals

SCOPE:

Financial: Provide financial support to the selling team by developing financial analysis and tracking and proposing recommendations to optimize customer business plan and assisting to solve operation issues in order to drive effectiveness and efficiency in business process.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITY:

Operation:

1. Check trade payment application to see whether the budget source is correct and have enough funding to settle the payment.

2. Track and analyze sales overhead and review with finance and sales management

3. Prepare RA accrual aging report, and communicate the RA status to team leader and BDM

4. Act as a key contact between the selling team and Finance, closely communicate with selling team on financial updates, and provide professional ideas on customer’s financial issues including trade payment, invoices and taxation related etc. and assist to fix the issues.

CBP Process Involvement:

5. Provide guidance on BSP and TP setting for customer plan to APG Owner.

6. Reconcile store plan spending and customer promotion accruals, and provide recommendations on the gap identified.

7. Support manager to monitor GTN spending in line with guideline and propose methods to improve GTN effectiveness.

8. Ensure the customer plans are captured in the system correctly before frozen cut.

9. Actively participate in customer planning and business reviews

10. Support manager to conduct promotion evaluation ROI analysis.

CD Team and Customer Engagement:

11. Support and participate in CD team’s activities and meetings.

12. Assist to manager to provide training to the selling team

13. Investigate customer profitability driver and support on customer profitability analysis

14. External engagement and relationship building with customers and distributors.

Others:

Support ac-hot projects in CDT Finance

PROBLEM SOLVING & DECISION MAKING:

Guidance received: Team Leader West Region/ CDT Assistant Finance Manager /CDT Finance Manager for all above and CDT and CSD for cross functional support.

Complexity of analysis: Data correlation and statistical analysis.

Impact of decisions: significant to the daily operation.

Special environments/conditions: travel to join sales meetings and visit customers

MAJOR CONTACTS:

Internal: Field sales, national customer marketing, consumer marketing and customer service dept

External: Trade customers

EDUCATION AND /OR EXPERIENCE:

Education: University degree in finance/accounting, MBA or post graduate degree a plus

Experience: 2+ years business experience with commercial finance areas.

Special Knowledge: SAP and database expertise. Competency in EXCEL.

Competencies: Strong learning ability, energetic and self-motivated, resulted oriented, good analytical skills, strong relationship building and negotiation skills, and good communication skills and good command of English.

Colgate-Palmolive is a global company serving consumers in over 200 countries with the history of more than 200 years. We offer a range of high quality consumer products in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition.


We are the clear global leader in oral care, liquid soaps and underarm protection. In other categories, our brands encompass a range of products that play a familiar role in daily hygiene all over the world. With a passion of commitment to our values, a clear focus on strategic priorities, and a prompt and perfect execution; we serve people everyday with well-known brands that make their livers healthier and more enjoyable.

The first Colgate toothpaste was produced in China in 1993, and ever since then, we have become the oral care leader linking closely with people’s daily life, and have become the major players in personal care and home care categories. And at the present, we start to introduce pet nutrition products to China.

Today, we have commercial offices and manufacturing sites in Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Yangzhou and Hong Kong with now has more than 5,000 employees. Our Huangpu Plant based in Guangzhou and Sanxiao Plant in Yangzhou has become the largest toothpaste plant and toothbrush plant in Colgate globally.